So I just realized that is has been a really long time since I’ve written anything, and the semester starts on Monday (my last one!!) and after that, updating is not my number one priority. So I’m going to do it know, especially since it is a new year.
2012… I was sitting at my mom’s house on New Year’s Eve thinking back on dear ol’ Y2K and laughing at how panicked everyone was. I was 12 and I remember sitting in our front room watching the ball drop on TV, holding my breath, waiting to see if the world with blow up. Or whatever. I don’t really know what we all expected it to be like. But the memory of it made me laugh. And now 12 years later so much has changed. New Year’s is not on my list of favorite holidays. I would much rather be in bed at midnight than awake making tons of noise. This year I had to work at six the next morning so I went to bed around 10 and was followed down the stairs with a chorus and teenage boys singing the “Party Pooper” song that my darling mother just HAD to teach them…. But it was pretty funny.
I finished out 2011 by ending my second to last semester of my undergraduate degree, and moving into a condo in Pleasant Grove. Its been quite the year. 2012 will be a monumental year for me. I graduate in April, after 5 long years I will finally have my Bachelor’s degree. I will be taking the GRE this summer and then applying to the Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s program at BYU. And then pray really, really hard that I get in. Grad school is a scary idea. The fact that I’m almost ready to start my actual career is a scary idea. There are still moments that I don’t really believe that I’m old enough to be at this point in my life. And then there are times that I just want to fast forward 5 years and be done with it all.
I wish I could say that I’ve made some real new year’s resolutions. But I haven’t. I’m not very good at them, so I’d rather not set myself up to fail. I have things that I want to improve on, of course. I always have things that I want to improve on, but I don’t write them down or anything of the sort. Mostly I just want to get through this next semester and stay sane. That’s my goal. And then go on a cool trip after I graduate. I’m excited to see what this next brings and ready to just enjoy it.
